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Donna Huanca
Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria. 2024.
Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria. 2024.
Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria. 2024.
Nitsch Foundation, Vienna, Austria. 2024.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Dasha Trofimova.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Ansis Starks.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Ansis Starks.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Ansis Starks.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Ansis Starks.
Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. 2024. Image by Ansis Starks.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Faurschou, New York, USA. 2023.
Courtesy Faurschou and Peres Projects.
Photo credit: Elsa Kostic.
Space K, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Courtesy of Space K Seoul.
Photo by JunHo Lee.
Space K, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Courtesy of Space K Seoul.
Photo by JunHo Lee.
Space K, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Courtesy of Space K Seoul.
Photo by JunHo Lee.
Space K, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Courtesy of Space K Seoul.
Photo by Onart Studio.
Space K, Seoul, South Korea, 2023.
Courtesy of Space K Seoul.
Photo by Onart Studio.
MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, 2023.
MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, MExico, 2023.
MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, MExico, 2023.
MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, MExico, 2023.
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, 2022-2023.
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, 2022-2023.
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, 2022-2023.
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, 2022-2023.
The Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, 2022-2023.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2022.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2022.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2022.
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK. On view until May 22, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
ARNOLFINI Arts, Bristol, UK, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2022.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, United States, 2021.
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States, 2019.
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States, 2019.
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States, 2019.
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States, 2019.
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, 2019
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, 2019.
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, 2019.
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, 2019.
Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, 2019.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, 2018.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2017.
Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom. Curated by Maitreyi Maheshwari, 2016.
Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom. Curated by Maitreyi Maheshwari, 2016
Art in General, New York in collaboration with kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. Curated by Anne Barlow, 2015.
Art in General, New York in collaboration with kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. Curated by Anne Barlow, 2015.
Art in General, New York in collaboration with kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia. Curated by Anne Barlow, 2015.
MoMA PS1, New York, United States, 2014.
MoMA PS1, New York, United States, 2014.
MoMA PS1, New York, United States, 2014.
MoMA PS1, New York, United States, 2014.
Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca creates work that destabilizes the male gaze while exploring femme and indigenous, specifically Andean, narratives and mark-making. Huanca’s installations encompass painting, sculpture, and live performance, and are characteristically created for, and integrated with, the specific architectural spaces in which they are presented. Her art is deeply invested in ritual practice, both drawn from Andean culture and exploring ritual at large as a means for transcendence, meditation, and transformation.
In recent years, Huanca’s work has stood out for its understanding of the body, and of the skin in particular, as a territory where surface and matter converse with architecture, space, and the world. Her performances produce slow-paced choreographies that conjure private rituals and meditations in the gallery space, confronting the viewer with a scenario equal parts uncomfortable and suggestive. The titles of the paintings, through which matter emerges as something between the natural and the artificial, and in which blue predominates over skin tones and earthy colors, allude to different types of rocks, minerals, and natural processes. The totemic sculptures, on the other hand, combine a variety of materials that relate to the body and which stand out for their tactile qualities, such as clothes, skin, silicone body imprints, natural and synthetic textiles, or re-contextualized cultural artifacts.
Donna Huanca completed her education at the University of Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine; and Städelschule, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She has completed several residencies, including at SmackMellon, Brooklyn; Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; and Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Huanca is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship; Art Matters Grant, New York; Francis Greenberg Award, Art OMI, New York; DeGolyer Grant, Dallas Museum of Art; and a 2016 Hirshhorn Artist Honoree.
Recent exhibitions include SCAR TISSUE (BLURD EARTH), Faurschou, New York, USA, 2023; BLISS POOL, Space K, Seoul, South Corea, 2023; Ojos Obsidianos, MAZ Museo de Arte Zapopan, México; Portal de Plata, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2022; Aqua Sabia, Kiasma Museun, Helsinki, Finland; Magma Slit, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, US; Cueva de Copal, Arnolfini Bristol, UK; Obsidian Ladder, curated by Olivia Marciano, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States; Lengua Llorona, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark; Piedra Quemada, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria; Cell Echo, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; Lengua de Bartolina Sisa, Travesía Cuatro Madrid, Spain; Jaguar and electric Eels, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany; Scar Cymbals, Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom; Surrogate Painteen, Peres Project, Berlin, Germany; Ice Chrysocolla, Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland; Poly Styrene’s Braces, curated by Anne Barlow, Art in General, New York, United States; In collaboration with kim?, Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia and Sade Room (formerly reclusive), Moma PS1, New York, United States.
She is included in numerous international collections: Collections Solomon R. Guggenheim Collection, New York, United States; Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom; B.LA Foundation, Vienna, Austria; Espacio 1414/Berezdivin Collection, Santurce, Puerto Rico; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, United States; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, United States; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China; Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China, among others.
2018. Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig.
2018. Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig.
2018. Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Dr. Stella Rollig.
2018. Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.
2018. Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China.
ART BASEL, Miami Beach 2024 | Travesía Cuatro
Travesía Cuatro will be at booth D22 at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, at the Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
Private days: December 4 – 5
Public days: December 6 – 8
Artists: Álvaro Urbano, Teresa Solar Abboud Donna Huanca, Manuel Solano, Ana Prata, John Isaacs, Jorge Méndez Blake, Milena Muzquiz, Willa Wasserman, Sara Ramo, Ángela de la Cruz, Jorge Eielson, Eleonore Koch and Gonzalo Lebrija
NITSCH FOUNDATION, Vienna | Donna Huanca
SKIN PAINTEENS is Donna Huanca’s second solo exhibition in Vienna, Austria, this time at the Nitsch Foundation. The show will be open from October 11 until December 20, 2024.
ZUZEUM ART CENTRE, Riga | Donna Huanca
UTOPIC CELLS is Donna Huanca’s solo institutional exhibition in the Baltics, at the Zuzeum Art Center in Riga, Latvia. Huanca’s works are part of the Zuzāns Collection and inspired this project, created especially for Zuzeum and the show can be visited from September 20 until November 24, 2024.
PORTAL DE PLATA
Artist: Donna Huanca
Author: Donna Huanca
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation, Oslo, Norway | Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom, 2023
Womanology
Artists: Donna Huanca, Elena del Rivero.
Authors: Ángela Molina and Manuela Mena.
José Ramón Prieto Collection, 2021.
Piedra Quemada
Artist: Donna Huanca
Authors: Elysia Chuquimia Crampton, Isabelle Graw, Maike Hohn, Ana Petrović, Stella Rollig.
Belvedere, Vienna, 2018.
Scar Cymbals
Artist: Donna Huanca
Authors: Maitreyi Maheshwari, Kathy Noble, Hili Perlson, Venus Lau, Reba Maybury.
Zabludowicz Art Projects, London, 2016.
Lengua Llorona
Artist: Donna Huanca
Authors: Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, Marie Nipper.
Copenhagen Contemporary, 2019.
